"Who says? Who says you're not perfect? Who says you're not worth it? Who says you're the only one that's hurtin'? Trust me, that's the price of beauty Who says you're not pretty? Who says you're not beautiful? Who says?"

"We're going 'round and 'round We're never gonna stop goin' 'Round and 'round We'll never get where we're goin' 'Round and 'round Well, you're gonna miss me, 'cause I'm gettin' dizzy Going 'round and 'round and 'round You try to pull me close and whisper in my ear You always told me lies, I've cried out all my tears I push my feelings to the side, but then you bring 'em back Br-bring 'em back, now you got me singing"

"I'm missing you so much Can't help it, I'm in love A day without you is like a year without rain I need you by my side Don't know how I'll survive A day without you is like a year without rain Whoa, oh, whoa"

"You are the thunder, and I am the lightning And I love the way you know Who you are, and to me, it's exciting When you know it's meant to be"

"You (you) You're falling down The world's not spinning 'round You (you) When you're falling down No, it's not all about You (you) When you're falling down You know I'll be around When you're falling down, falling down"

"I support him. I think I always will. I’m upset when he’s upset, I’m happy when he’s happy. I don’t want anything to ever happen to him bad. It hurts me. That’s all."

"[I learned] how to love myself first. And not just in a relationship, just my everyday life,” she admits. “I give myself so much, I let people pull at me in every direction, and I want everybody to be happy. Eventually I would be in my bathroom sobbing right before I go onstage. And then I’d just put myself onstage and I’d want to be there for those people. I never took a moment to just go, go away and be myself and figure it out. I kept pushing myself and I think the biggest thing I learned is, it’s okay. I’m going to stop when I need to stop, I’m going to feel when I need to feel, and I don’t care what comes with that or what people want to say. It’s normal. I’m suppose to keep going and that’s all I want to do."

"I believe in the dollar. Everything I earn, I spend!"

"Then there was Queen Bee—a Joan Crawford soap. She wrote me a welcoming note saying how she'd always admired veterans of the silent days. And I never had the courage to inform her I was actually a year younger than she was. On every Crawford picture, she had a younger cast member to berate and on this one, when she had to slap pretty little Lucy Marlow, she did so with such fury it could be heard all over the sound stage."

"Every Negro in America is in one way or another menaced by it. One is born in a white country, a white Protestant Puritan country, where one was once a slave, where all the standards and all the images . . . when you open your eyes on the world, everything you see: none of it applies to you. You go to white movies and, like everybody else, you fall in love with Joan Crawford, and you root for the Good Guys who are killing off the Indians. It comes as a great psychological collision when you realize all of these things are really metaphors for your oppression, and will lead into a kind of psychological warfare in which you may perish."

"Learn to breathe, learn to speak, but first..learn to feel."

"It has been said that on screen I personified the American woman."

"Women's Lib? Poor little things. They always look so unhappy. Have you noticed how bitter their faces are?"

"If you have an ounce of common sense and one good friend you don't need an analyst."

"Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell."

"I have always known what I wanted, and that was beauty... in every form."

"If you've earned a position, be proud of it. Don't hide it. I want to be recognized. When I hear people say, 'There's Joan Crawford!' I turn around and say, 'Hi! How are you!'"

"You have to be self-reliant and strong to survive in this town. Otherwise you will be destroyed."

"I think that the most important thing a woman can have - next to talent, of course - is her hairdresser."

"I never go outside unless I look like Joan Crawford the movie star. If you want to see the girl next door, go next door."

"Even as a baby I quickly learned to crawl out of my crib. … They'd put up barriers but I learned how to go over them."

"Mary was forty years old when she first played Peter Pan, yet she rehearsed fourteen hours a day and seemed fresh and high spirited while everyone else in the company drooped with fatigue. She was determined to fly all over the stage in the part."

"The irrepressible boy who refused to grow up had been the star's favorite character since childhood, and she longed to play the role on stage."

"Things can get very lovey and feasty with a bunch of stimulated hams."

"Anything was better than playing cards, and I was doing something I wanted to do — creating."

"I was seventeen years old, a married woman without real responsibilities, miserable about my mixed-up emotions, afraid there was something awfully wrong with me because I didn’t enjoy being a wife. Worst of all, I didn't have enough to do."

"It was all role playing. I felt Larry was my little brother, Ben my big brother. Role playing was something I had known since I was born, but it wasn't a good basis for a marriage."

"Never, never, never can I say I had a frustrating childhood. It was all joy. Mother used to say she never had seen such a happy child — that I awakened each morning with a smile. I don’t remember that, but I do remember that I never wanted to go to bed, to go to sleep, for fear I’d miss something."

"Sometimes I think that I cheated my own family and my closest friends by giving to audiences so much of the love I might have kept for them. But that’s the way I was made; I truly don't think I could help it"

"Mother was the disciplinarian, but it was Daddy who could turn me into an angel with just one look."

"You are my Peter Pan."

"Neverland is the way I would like real life to be … timeless, free, mischievous, filled with gaiety, tenderness, and magic."

"I can't tell you the joy I felt in flying in that show … I loved it so. The freedom of spirit that was Peter Pan was suddenly there for me. I discovered I was happier in the air than on the ground."

"Peter Pan is perhaps the most important thing, to me, that I have ever done in theater."

"Stop the habit of wishful thinking and start the habit of thoughtful wishes."

"I feel so bad. My band started playing the wrong song and I didn't know what to do so I thought I'd do a hoedown. I'm sorry."

"I can make $4 million somewhere else. My body is for me and for whoever my love interest is at that moment, and that's the only person who gets to see it."

"As long as there are girls, we need guy bands. However, in this day, it is not good enough to just sing great. You have to write, sing and play. We want it all."

"A little bit is not that much to ask to ay things right."

"Is this chicken, what I have, or is this fish? I know it's tuna, but it… it says "Chicken... by the Sea"."

"The real me is a southern girl with her Levis on and an open heart. Wish I could save the world, like I was super girl."